Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1887-01-26

out hke ripe pOkeberrles from grOunr
hog day till hoIler-eve. Ajax Thum
ply seemed to be the faN'rit @ alLtheit
hlessin's e'ehildhbod aH Worried on
the Mumps three times on both sides
made the measles tired four ditferen
winters, KEEP his folks awake o. nights
an checked an ketched his breatl
with reg lar wild Injun WHO'D hoop
SO long an so often this the docto
| said 1t had set in, Oh hiln to stay, All
| tint ti0thin' less'n q good stroke o
lightnin d cure him. But Ajax got
fat on 'em an they all gave 1t up ez {
bad Job, an he come out of all on Ell
tougher'h ever Folks said th't III
want hothin' left that could dowr
Ajax Thumply, an if tn were any one
i'll the settlement ez doubted it he quit
doubtin' arter what happened to Ajal
one spring In the sugar bush.
Ajax were tappin' trees fer IA"
one spring, all alone in that part o
the bush, He had bored q hole il en-,
tree, an were fist IL gohtet to SCI his
! elder+srfit iii it, wen swat! come sum
pin agin his head, an he didn't quit
flynn through the air till he had gone
sumpin' like forty foot, Es he strncS
on the groun' he looked back an SET
th't ez he were tappin' the tree bis
oar mad come up ahind an tapped
him. The bar didn't wait fer AjaS
to get up, but follered him right up
| Alex didn't hev n0thh' to fgth with,
so wat does he do but play off dead,
knowing th't at th't season o'theyear
Oars a lug their fodder home
fore they put it inside 81 'eias6lts an,
hopin' thu shmpuP d turn up to git
him QUEEN the sCrape. The b ar shifted
round Ajax while, an then begun
to lug him off. They hadn't gone fur,
though, Wen the bar stopped an
dropped his game. Ajax opened his
eyes q leetle by an, by on wa't does
he see bit the Ci,eerin' prospec' O.
Dem atoWed away in the ground, an
The bar were diggin' away for dear
life to scoop out the buryin' place. At
this Ajax kinder lost his grit a leetle,
an he couldn't hev stirred an inch if
he'd know'd it. d save his life. The
bar want long a digging the hole, an
fore Ajax scarcely know'd it he were
dumped inter it an the BAR were
EhNSh4A ING ulII OH Stu IlS III Oh lOp
o him: Ajax Were poorly near hid
fore he .diskivered th't he had hung
onter the elder Spite all that time.
The Spite had g half inch hole through
1t from one eend to to- other. The BAR
had his back to Ajax jist then, shovel
in in the dirt. Quicker'n a flash
Ajax clasps one end O. the splice to
his nose, an let's the elder stick
straight up through the dirt, and wen
the b ar got through A. ax had reg
lar chimhleT from the outside; fdrry-
il fresh air right down to him. The
dirt bore q leetle heavy on Ajax, O.
course, but he commenced to dig it
away, KNOWN, that it we've only a
question O. time wen the bar would
come back, onkiver him, ant chaw
dinner often HIM. Ajax were jist an
hour an tWenty-minutes gitten, outen
that hole. an though his grit had all
come back to him, he argyed th't it
were picnic enough to be buried alive
by b ar an git out ag'ih without
waitin to Ice chaWed up by bruin, an
50 A. lax made tracks fur hum, the best
feelin' -year-old tn were in the
clearin'. After that everybody said
tn want nothin', fer sure. th't could
Get away with Ajax Thumply. But
jist listen a leetle more.
81 don s'pose th't you'd have the
cheek to say th't you're ez tough ez
Ajax were, Peleg, an yit see how he
ended up. One day, not long arter he
were buried alive, he were havin' a
leetle discussion with q boy bout
th't Aiax's poor OF gran'pop
had or hadn't done. Sumpin similar,
come TO think on it, to this Bill Sim
mons way O. dom business. The
boy poorly soon said to Ajax th't if it
Want SO wat he said th't Ajax could
come over to his house an have all
the cider he he could talks inter him
through q straw. Well; it want SO
an Ajax went an sucked cider,
through a straw. Now just to see
Peleg; this tough boy, who had got
fat an tougher the more he had the
the mumps, the hookin' cough,
you've only had 'em
who was buried alive by
q bar adj dug hisself out-w'ich you
ain t never done yet-went an sucked
cider through a straw, come back .
home an was took to his bed with it,
an what the measles an sech an the
Ouryin' alive couldn't do to Ajax
Thumply, the cider through q straw
lone in short order. Fore it had q.
tackled Ajax an hour he was ready
to be buried dead"
The Old Settler paused. Peleg was
10 affected by the recital that he
simply looked amazed and said moth
ng. Presently his grandfather said:
"Now my son, if Ajax only had CARR
ID that cider hum to his poor gram
pop. h'hain't no doubt but th't he'd
Ia been here to-day tellin' his story
lissef, an how much better his gram
pop would ha' felt. You kin find q
pitcher right there in the cupboard,
oeleg"
PeIeg found the pitcher. and hurried
,ver to Bill Simmons with It. The
Did Settler resumed his boot greasing.
'Thuz nothin like pertectin' the vel
are O. yer gran children vile they'm
Dung" said he, ''fer wen they git old
e can't" Ed. Mort.